quotes about Cathedrals
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Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
-- Bernard Tschumi -
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.
-- Clarence DarrowSource : "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.
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You can't build a cathedral in a day. A look at the club's history tells you these things take time.
-- Gerard Houllier -
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In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.
-- Hardy Kruger -
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
-- John Archibald Wheeler -
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
-- Michael Gungor -
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The Christian faith is a grand cathedral with divinely pictured windows.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
-- Oscar Niemeyer -
I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.
-- Philip Johnson -
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
-- R. W. Apple -
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I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.
-- Richard Ingrams -
Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.
-- Theodore Zeldin -
What is a roofless cathedral to a well-built pie?
-- William Maginn -
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
-- David LodgeSource : David Lodge (1990). “Nice Work”, Penguin Group USA
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